Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages

June 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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There will be no SF in SF events in May due to convention travel. However, we will be back on June 10th with Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages. More details to follow once we have our feet back on the ground.

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City Lights presents philosopher Jonathon Keats in conversation with Michael Wall about Wall's "Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)." The book is written in a question-and-answer format using humor and pop culture to make difficult ideas more palatable, which both does and doesn't mirror […]

Three Rooms Press presents a release party for the 12th issue of "Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art," with readings by a wild list of contributors that includes Carol Dorf, Jack Hirschman, Maw Shein Win, Neeli Cherkovski and Mahnaz Badihian. At the famous Spec's Bar, guests are encouraged to get the full […]

Kiese Laymon visits Marcus Books Oakland to read from his remarkable new book "Heavy: An American Memoir," a layered and time-bending coming-of-age account of growing up in Jackson, Mississippi. Joining him is local poet and educator Tongo Eisen-Martin ("Heaven Is All Goodbyes"), whose dynamic recitations match the sustained emotional intensity of Laymon's prose.

D. A. Powell ("Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys") presents students of his USF Graduate Program in Writing course "San Francisco Poetics" reading new works. The students will share the stage with the poet and founding diretor of the program Aaron Shurin ("Citizen"), who reads and discusses his own work and how it relates […]

The 5th annual Howard Zinn Book Fair, themed "Fighting for the Air We Breathe," brings together authors, activists and critical thinkers for a day of readings, discussions and workshops that explore the value of dissident histories in building a better future. Volunteer-organized, the festival features a wide-ranging book fair and programming on everything from climate […]

The quarterly Babylon Salon series features readings by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Vanessa Hua ("A River of Stars"), Beth Winegarner ("Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa"), Heather June Gibbons ("Her Mouth as Souvenir"), Sara Mumolo ("Mortar") and Christine O'Brien ("Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing") in the downstairs performance space of […]